MAYERL, Maximilian
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Mayerl, Maximilian Date of birth:  May 28th, 1917 (Aigen im Ennstal/Liezen, Austria) Date of death:  February 11th, 2010 Nationality:  Austrian BIOGRAPHY:  Maximilian Mayerl flew 647 sorties of which 172 were on the Western Front and 42 as fighter-bomber sorties on the Eastern Front. He scored 76 aerial victories, 4 on the Western Front.       LUFTWAFFE EHRENPOKALE FÜR BESONDERE LEISTUNGEN IM LUFTKRIEG Rank: Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) Unit: 9. / Jagdgeschwader 51 Awarded on: June 29th, 1942 Details: Published in the Ehrenliste der Deutschen Luftwaffe on July 6th, 1942.         DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD Rank: Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) Unit: 9. / Jagdgeschwader 51 Awarded on: November 27th, 1942         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) Unit: Staffelkapitän 9. / Jagdgeschwader 51 “Mölders” Awarded on: November 22nd, 1943         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE         EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9 - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X - Patzwall K.D., Der Ehrenpokal für besondere Leistung im Luftkrieg, Studien zur Geschichte der Auszeichnungen, Band 6, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931533-08-3 - Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945 - Aces of the Luftwaffe